Werribee paedophile defaults

CONVICTED paedophile and prominent Werribee businessman Aldo DiNatale has not met a court-imposed deadline to pay almost $180,000 compensation to his two victims.

He now faces bankruptcy.

DiNatale was served with a bankruptcy notice by lawyers Schembri & Co on June 23 requiring him to pay $176,477.80 or make arrangements to settle the debt within 21 days (by July 12).

He did not do so and proceedings have begun in the Federal Magistrates’ Court to have him declared bankrupt.

DiNatale is married to Rosa DiNatale, the older sister of one of his victims.

A company search lists her as the director of Wyndham Property Holdings, the company behind a medical centre planned for the corner of Princes Highway and Wattle Ave, Werribee.

DiNatale is listed as a director of the company until May 3 last year, the same date his wife was appointed a director.

Nine days later Victorian County Court judge Wendy Wilmoth ordered DiNatale to pay his victims compensation for the pain and suffering he caused.

Wyndham Council has also confirmed DiNatale as the applicant behind a bid to demolish historic Davis House in Watton St, Werribee.

DiNatale pleaded guilty in 2008 to indecently assaulting Nick Deleo, now aged 46, from age seven to nine between 1971 and 1973.

DiNatale also pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a female.

Now 65, DiNatale was sentenced to two years’ jail on each count on May 29, 2008, with an effective sentence of eight months.

Judge Wilmoth suspended 17 months of the jail term for two years, bringing the effective jail time down to 15 months.

In May last year, Judge Wilmoth ordered DiNatale to pay each of his two victims $80,000 compensation for pain and suffering.

A tax return submitted to the County Court in May last year when his victims first pursued their compensation claim shows his taxable income for the 2009-10 financial year was just $35,000.

Judge Wilmoth noted: “He is one of a number of directors of several corporate entities involved in property development but there is no other evidence available to me as to his financial circumstances.”

However, she also noted that “he has been described in some of the depositional material as a man of means, as a successful businessman in the field of property development”.

DiNatale referred the Leader to his lawyers when contacted about his failure to pay compensation to his victims.